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SuperXOne

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I've always wanted one of those airless paint sprayers that you give it five gallon buckets of paint and deck stain to drink and it sucks it up and sprays it all out all over everything you want to paint. Last year I bought this paint sprayer on sale at Lowe's:

http://www.lowes.com/pd_295433-48690-25 ... facetInfo=

My daughter and her boyfriend have given this paint sprayer a good, fair trial. So far, it's drank up three five gallon buckets of white exterior paint, four five gallon buckets of deck stain, and they have painted one of my rent houses entirely and stained three very large decks, and it's still ready to go to work on the next project. I think I'll paint the South wall of my law office next and dispatch them back down to the farm to paint the milk barn. Then, I can go back to Lowe's and buy attachments for this gadget convert the paint sprayer into a power roller for painting the inside of a house.

I have only one regret. I didn't know when I bought mine that they make a Graco LTS19 Magnum PRO sprayer for about $600 that might even have been better. If my kids can ever wear out the one we have I'll buy the better one the next time.

Airless paint sprayers do a wonderful, flawless job. You must prep the surface the same as anything else, but once you mask off the windows and move all the cars away, the gadgets will slurp up gallons of paint like a drunk just before closing time. And, they have this auto clean feature where you stick a garden hose in the gadget and it cleans itself. You'll have to watch letting it freeze up in the winter, but they are super easy maintence.
 
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I am impressed, and never a little amazed, to see my kids actually read the instructions and follow them on the gadgets I buy them. Of course, my withholding of any cash payment for their labor until AFTER the old man has inspected the work and seen the tools all cleaned and put away in perfect condition might have contributed somewhat to this happy situation.

My daughter's boyfriend is seriously like another son, only a head taller than all the rest of us, raised on a farm with a successful slaughterhouse as the main operation, and could probably throw one of those forty pound buckets of paint over the top of a two story house. It's a pleasure just to watch them work.
 
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